Well the transfer is coming to a close. I am doing great. It was nice being companions with elder Cazier. Among other things I know that the Lord is helping me to learn patience and focus by being companions with a departing missionary. It has been a little hard to send home a missionary this late into my own mission. I am still working on not being to hard on myself while constructively trying to be better. I honestly believe that getting excersise and being in a bike area is really helping...
As for the people:
-Maricruz continues to have a lot of problems. Perhaps more than I have seen in a single person on my whole mission. Thats ok, I know that it will work out in the end, in the Lord's time. Right now here not being comfortable in the south gate ward is actually on the back burner. The biggest issue is that she committed to live the law of chastity after having it explained very clearly to her (I even used the phrase legally married to) but then we asked and found out the man she has been living with for the past 27 years is not legally her husband. She seems to think, besides her having no desire to marry him, that if she does she will owe the IRS 20,000... we are still confused on that one. We are also working with her to completely give up smoking (only smoked 3 times since she has met with the missionaries and give up drinking coffee. Oh and her baptismal date is feb 28, so yeah we dont have a lot of time!
antonio-
he is a referral that we had received a while ago. We had taught him twice and then for the most part lost contact with him. He has a very busy work schedule. Anyway we called him sat and invited him to church and then he came! and loved it, he participated a lot and met a lot of people. (elders quorum is a lot more friendly after last weeks lesson on basically fellowshipping at church...) The only thing with him is that we are not allowed to teach him at his home because the owner of the house does not allow too many visitors esp missionaries esp mormon missionaries...
besides that we went to the visitors center twice last week:
familia ferrer
Once with the less active family that is on the steps to activity again (been once with us and to a few devotionals...) Their potential-investigator neighbor friend (whom we have met with once and went to the elder clayton devotional) was supposed to come but couldnt.
noemi and co.
she is the daughter of an active member of the ward. She has two kids. They all LOVED it. We will be asking her if she would like to attend spanish or english church (her kids dont speak spanish that well) and then give a ref if necessary.
This being south gate we have a lot of other people that are on the radar but i will tell you guys more about them later
